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She makes the difficult connections between this national tragedy and the greater colonial systems that have endangered our most vulnerable for over a century, and she does it all with a keen, compassionate eye for all involved, especially the families who are too often overlooked. These stories need to be heard. These young people deserve nothing less than to be honoured everywhere.","OtherText_Accolades_0_Auth":"Katherena Vermette","OtherText_Accolades_1":"Seven Fallen Feathers may prove to be the most important book published in Canada in 2017. Tanya Talaga offers well-researched, difficult truths that expose the systemic racism, poverty, and powerlessness that contribute to the ongoing issues facing Indigenous youth, their families, and their communities. It is a call to action that deeply honours the lives of the seven young people; our entire nation should feel their loss profoundly.","OtherText_Accolades_1_Auth":"Patti LaBoucane-Benson","OtherText_Accolades_2":"You simply must read this book. Tanya Talaga has done the hard work for us. She sat with the families, heard their stories. Now, with the keen eye and meticulous research of an uncompromising journalist, she is sharing their truths. We have to start listening. Parents are sending their children to school in Thunder Bay to watch them die. Racism, police indifference, bureaucratic ineptitude, lateral violence — it doesn’t have to be this way. Let this book enrage you — and then demand that Canada act now.","OtherText_Accolades_2_Auth":"Duncan McCue","OtherText_Description_for_R_0":"\u003cp\u003eIt’s early April and the 2011 federal election is in full swing. All over Canada, Stephen Harper’s Conservatives are duking it out with Jack Layton’s New Democrats and the struggling Liberals in a bid to win a majority government.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI’m in Thunder Bay, Ontario, to see Stan Beardy, the Nishawbe-Aski Nation’s grand chief, to interview him for a story on why it is indigenous people never seem to vote.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe receptionist at the NAN’s office greets me and ushers me into a large, common meeting room to wait for Stan. Everything in the room is grey — the walls, the tubular plastic tables, the carpets. The only splash of colour is a large white flag with a bear on it that has been tacked to the wall.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Great White Bear stands in the centre of a red circle, in the middle of the flag. The white bear is the traditional symbol of the life of the North American Indian. The red circle background is symbolic of the Red Man. His feet are standing, planted firmly on the bottom line, representing the Earth while his head touches the top line, symbolic to his relationship to the Great Spirit in the sky. The bear is stretched out, arms and feet open wide, to show he has nothing to hide.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere are circles joining the bear’s rib cage. They are the souls of the people, indigenous songs, and legends. The circles are the ties that bind all the clans together.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese circles also offer protection. Without them, the ribcage would expose the great bear’s beating heart and leave it open to harm.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStan walks in and greets me warmly, his brown eyes twinkling as he takes a seat.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStan is pensive, quiet, and patient. He says nothing as he wearily leans back in his chair and waits for me to explain why exactly I flew 2,400 km north from Toronto to see him and talk about the federal election.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI launch into my spiel, trying not to sound like a salesperson or an interloper into his world, someone who kind of belongs here and kind of does not. This is the curse of my mixed blood. I am the daughter of a half-Anish mom and a Polish father.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eI ramble off abysmal voting pattern statistics across Canada, while pointing out that in many ridings indigenous people could act as a swing vote, influencing that riding and hence the trajectory of the election.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStan stares at me impassively. Non-plussed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo I start firing off some questions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt doesn’t go well. Every time I try to engage him, asking him about why indigenous people won’t get in the game and vote, he begins talking about the disappearance of fifteen-year-old Jordan Wabasse.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt was a frustrating exchange, like we were speaking two different languages.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Indigenous voters could influence fifty seats across the country if they got out and voted but they don’t. Why?” I ask.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Why aren’t you writing a story on Jordan Wabasse? He has been gone seventy-one days now,” replies Stan.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Stephen Harper has been no friend to indigenous people yet if everyone voted, they could swing the course of this election,” I continue, hoping he’ll bite at the sound of Harper’s name. The man is no friend of the Indians.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“They found a shoe down by the water. Police think it might have been his,” replies Stan.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis went on for a good fifteen minutes. I was annoyed. I knew a missing Grade 9 indigenous student in Thunder Bay would not make news in urban Toronto at Canada’s largest daily newspaper. I could practically see that election bus rolling away without me.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen I remembered my manners and where I was.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI was sitting with the elected grand chief of 23,000 people and he was clearly trying to tell me something.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI tried a new tactic. I’d ask about Jordan and then I’d swing around and get him to talk about elections.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen Stan said: “Jordan is the seventh student to go missing or die while at school.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSeven.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStan says their names: “Reggie Bushie. Jethro Anderson. Paul Panacheese. Curran Strang. Robyn Harper. Kyle Morrisseau. And now, Jordan Wabasse.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe then tells me the seven were hundreds of miles away from their home communities and families.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEach was forced to leave their reserve simply because there was no high school for them to attend.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Going to high school is the right of every Canadian child,” says Stan, adding that these children are no different.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"[A]n urgent and unshakable portrait of the horrors faced by Indigenous teens going to school in Thunder Bay, Ontario, far from their homes and families. . . . Talaga’s incisive research and breathtaking storytelling could bring this community one step closer to the healing it deserves.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Booklist","OtherText_Review_1":"Talaga’s research is meticulous and her journalistic style is crisp and uncompromising. . . . The book is heartbreaking and infuriating, both an important testament to the need for change and a call to action.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Publisher's Weekly","OtherText_Review_2":"What is happening in Thunder Bay is particularly destructive, but Talaga makes clear how Thunder Bay is symptomatic, not the problem itself. Recently shortlisted for the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction, Talaga’s is a book to be justly infuriated by.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_3":"Tanya Talaga investigates the deaths of seven Indigenous teens in Thunder Bay — Jethro Anderson, Curran Strang, Robyn Harper, Paul Panacheese, Reggie Bushie, Kyle Morrisseau, and Jordan Wabasse — searching for answers and offering a deserved censure to the authorities who haven’t investigated, or considered the contributing factors, nearly enough.","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"National Post","OtherText_Review_4":"[W]here Seven Fallen Feathers truly shines is in Talaga’s intimate retellings of what families experience when a loved one goes missing, from filing a missing-persons report with police, to the long and brutal investigation process, to the final visit in the coroner’s office. It’s a heartbreaking portrait of an indifferent and often callous system . . . Seven Fallen Feathers is a must-read for all Canadians. It shows us where we came from, where we’re at, and what we need to do to make the country a better place for us all.","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"The Walrus","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"The shocking true story of seven young Indigenous students who were found dead in a northern Ontario city over the span of seven years.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Short-listed","PrizeCodeText_1":"Short-listed","PrizeCodeText_10":"Commended","PrizeCodeText_11":"Commended","PrizeCodeText_12":"Commended","PrizeCodeText_13":"Commended","PrizeCodeText_14":"Commended","PrizeCodeText_2":"Short-listed","PrizeCodeText_3":"Commended","PrizeCodeText_4":"Winner","PrizeCodeText_5":"Winner","PrizeCodeText_6":"Winner","PrizeCodeText_7":"Short-listed","PrizeCodeText_8":"Long-listed","PrizeCodeText_9":"Commended","PrizeCode_0":"04","PrizeCode_1":"04","PrizeCode_10":"03","PrizeCode_11":"03","PrizeCode_12":"03","PrizeCode_13":"03","PrizeCode_14":"03","PrizeCode_2":"04","PrizeCode_3":"03","PrizeCode_4":"01","PrizeCode_5":"01","PrizeCode_6":"01","PrizeCode_7":"04","PrizeCode_8":"05","PrizeCode_9":"03","PrizeName_0":"Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction","PrizeName_1":"B.C. 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Seven Fallen Feathers
The shocking true story of seven young Indigenous students who were found dead in a northern Ontario city over the span of seven years.
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Signs and Wonders
From a talented young writer comes sixteen stories about the the connections between us all.
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I took two planes to get here.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOrlando was retrieved from the swamp by a wily entrepreneur who set up dummy companies to purchase the land cheap. A hundred thousand people work in the theme parks here, vomiting in their oversized cartoon-costume heads because you aren’t allowed to vomit in a theme park. It’s hot in those cartoon heads. You aren’t even allowed to die of heat prostration.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePeople who die on the parks’ premises are secreted away, whisked from the grounds in unmarked cars and why not? Why not have a zone that death can’t in infiltrate? It costs fabulously to squeeze into these crowds, to belong.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOf course you offer life without death.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou offer furry animals that speak.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen I’m coming around the second pond the sprayers come on and shuffle out sheets of recollected water, the sign says. Water that I don’t want to touch my bare skin because who knows.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt’s not true that the wily entrepreneur is cryogenically preserved. That’s an urban legend. People say just his head in a murky aquarium: mouth open, the lower lip looking grey and nibbled, deteriorating despite the formaldehyde, like he’s developed a cold sore, and a five o’clock shadow, because hair still grows in death. Sometimes the head burps and a wobbling bubble escapes a corner of the mouth. A fold-encrusted eyelid utters. But that is just the underwater air infiltration.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis place is where the GoFundMe stage-four cancer children come to fulfill a bucket list. The parks around here specialize in reconstituting hearts — break ’em, put ’em back together. The white beluga in the aquarium will do it for you, all by itself. Defibrillate your soul. The ghostly mammal emerges from the murk, tail dragging because of a low-grade fugue.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Previous_review_q_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eREVIEW COPIES:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eBooklist\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"[A] testimony to her absolute mastery of technique . . . Without question, Moore is a writer of great social conscience and compassion.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Toronto Star","OtherText_Review_1":"In Moore’s most diverse and powerful collection yet, each story has a role to play in highlighting the most fascinating hidden aspects of our everyday lives.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Toronto Life","OtherText_Review_2":"Moore takes her characters to some undeniably dark places in these stories, though the book is never entirely devoid of humour or hope. And there is abiding joy in the prose, which is lithe and tensile in equal measure. There is astonishment here, and grit, and beauty that is close to breathtaking.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Quill and Quire","OtherText_Review_3":"Lisa Moore brings a particular wizardry to whatever she touches, but her command of the short story is such that when she bends its rules, we look at old ideas in new ways . . . The stories in Something for Everyone are like prizes in pass-the-parcel. They tie up neatly, but they’re loose enough so that when you move the package, the corner edge tears, and the wrapping opens up like a hole in a pair of nylons, and you realize there are a lot more layers underneath that need to be peeled back and teased apart.","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Overcast","OtherText_Review_4":"The stories in Lisa Moore’s collection, Something for Everyone, pulsate with raw energy and a fierce, searching intelligence. In a series of unconventional tales that explode off the page, Moore ushers her reader into a familiar but fractured and anything-but-straightforward reality. Lisa Moore writes of quotidian lives in crisis. Her characters’ anxieties mirror our own: family, love, employment, finances. But from these commonplace lives she conjures spellbinding mini-dramas, drawing us in from each story’s opening line, generating great suspense and fully engaging our sympathies. Throughout, the writing is vibrant, uninhibited and packed with sensual detail. Moore acknowledges the beauty of nature and the human capacity for kindness; she is no stranger to the essential comedy of the human condition. But never does she shy away from the dark undercurrents of her characters’ lives. Something for Everyone is an important book by a major talent working at the height of her considerable powers, an author who isn’t afraid to stretch the boundaries of her art and who pursues her singular aesthetic vision in an uncompromising and wildly entertaining manner.","OtherText_Review_4_Auth":"Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award Jury Citation","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"Lisa Moore returns with her third story collection that shows us the timeless, the tragic, and the miraculous hidden in our everyday lives.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Winner","PrizeCodeText_1":"Winner","PrizeCodeText_2":"Long-listed","PrizeCodeText_3":"Commended","PrizeCodeText_4":"Commended","PrizeCode_0":"01","PrizeCode_1":"01","PrizeCode_2":"05","PrizeCode_3":"03","PrizeCode_4":"03","PrizeName_0":"Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award","PrizeName_1":"Alistair MacLeod Prize for Short Fiction","PrizeName_2":"Scotiabank Giller Prize","PrizeName_3":"A Globe and Mail Book of the Year","PrizeName_4":"A Quill \u0026amp; Quire Book of the Year","PrizeYear_0":"2018","PrizeYear_1":"2018","PrizeYear_2":"2018","PrizeYear_3":"2018","PrizeYear_4":"2018","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2018-09-04","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"Lisa Moore returns with her third story collection that shows us the timeless, the tragic, and the miraculous hidden in our everyday lives.","Width":"5.25","WidthCode":"in"}
Something for Everyone
Lisa Moore returns with her third story collection that shows us the timeless, the tragic, and the miraculous hidden in our everyday lives.
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{"id":6899077677115,"title":"Soul of the Border","handle":"soul-of-the-border","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA story of revenge and salvation that follows a young woman who seeks the truth behind her father’s disappearance, \u003ci\u003eSoul of the Border \u003c\/i\u003eis the first novel in a trilogy set between Italy and the Austro-Hungarian Empire in the late nineteenth century.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEvery year, Augusto De Boer undertakes a treacherous journey through the Italian Alps, smuggling tobacco across the border to Austria. With conditions getting harsher, he decides to take his fifteen-year-old daughter Jole along with him, teaching her how to navigate the perilous crags and valleys while avoiding hostile customs officers and nocturnal beasts. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThree years later, Jole must retrace their steps alone as her father has not returned from the border. With only her horse for company, she makes her way across the stark mountain landscape in an epic journey of violence and corruption.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-06-27T18:24:23-04:00","created_at":"2022-06-27T17:27:23-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult Starred Reviews","Anansi International","By (author) Righetto Matteo","Mountain Trilogy","pub date: 2019-05-21","Translated by Curtis Howard"],"price":1895,"price_min":1895,"price_max":2295,"available":true,"price_varies":true,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":40499151831099,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487004194","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Soul of the Border - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":2295,"weight":240,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781487004194","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40499155370043,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487004200","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Soul of the Border - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1895,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487004200","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40499156647995,"title":"mobi","option1":"mobi","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487004217","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Soul of the Border - mobi","public_title":"mobi","options":["mobi"],"price":1895,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487004217","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_d8af49d7-cdf3-4c26-8672-9bdad81cf88f.jpg?v=1656366417"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_d8af49d7-cdf3-4c26-8672-9bdad81cf88f.jpg?v=1656366417","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"A mountain range is shown in shades of brown. A large, deep red circle is above it. The silhouette of a woman wearing a cowboy hat and boots and carrying a riffle is in front of the circle and the mountains. Text: Soul of the Border. Matteo Righetto.","id":22284856459323,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.656,"height":2400,"width":1575,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_d8af49d7-cdf3-4c26-8672-9bdad81cf88f.jpg?v=1656366417"},"aspect_ratio":0.656,"height":2400,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_d8af49d7-cdf3-4c26-8672-9bdad81cf88f.jpg?v=1656366417","width":1575}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA story of revenge and salvation that follows a young woman who seeks the truth behind her father’s disappearance, \u003ci\u003eSoul of the Border \u003c\/i\u003eis the first novel in a trilogy set between Italy and the Austro-Hungarian Empire in the late nineteenth century.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEvery year, Augusto De Boer undertakes a treacherous journey through the Italian Alps, smuggling tobacco across the border to Austria. With conditions getting harsher, he decides to take his fifteen-year-old daughter Jole along with him, teaching her how to navigate the perilous crags and valleys while avoiding hostile customs officers and nocturnal beasts. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThree years later, Jole must retrace their steps alone as her father has not returned from the border. With only her horse for company, she makes her way across the stark mountain landscape in an epic journey of violence and corruption.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
{"AlsoRecommendedISBN_0":"9780887847745","AlsoRecommendedISBN_3":"9781487005993","AlsoRecommendedISBN_4":"9781770898929","BASICMainSubject":"FIC019000","BASICMainSubjectLiteral":"FICTION \/ Literary","BiographicalNote":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMATTEO RIGHETTO\u003c\/strong\u003e is an award-winning author and professor of literature. Many of his works take place in beautiful mountain landscapes that he knows deeply, having visited them since his childhood backpacking with his father. Among his best-known novels are the celebrated \u003cem\u003eLa pelle dell’orso\u003c\/em\u003e (\u003cem\u003eThe Bear Skin\u003c\/em\u003e), recently made into a movie, and \u003cem\u003eApri gli occhi\u003c\/em\u003e (\u003cem\u003eOpen Your Eyes\u003c\/em\u003e), winner of the Premio Cortina. \u003cem\u003eL’anima della frontiera\u003c\/em\u003e (\u003cem\u003eSoul of the Border\u003c\/em\u003e) became a literary success and was sold in several countries before its publication in Italy. 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Among his best-known novels are the celebrated \u003cem\u003eLa pelle dell’orso\u003c\/em\u003e (\u003cem\u003eThe Bear Skin\u003c\/em\u003e), recently made into a movie, and \u003cem\u003eApri gli occhi\u003c\/em\u003e (\u003cem\u003eOpen Your Eyes\u003c\/em\u003e), winner of the Premio Cortina. \u003cem\u003eL’anima della frontiera\u003c\/em\u003e (\u003cem\u003eSoul of the Border\u003c\/em\u003e) became a literary success and was sold in several countries before its publication in Italy. The author is now working on the third title in the trilogy, \u003cem\u003eLa terra promessa\u003c\/em\u003e (\u003cem\u003eThe Promised Land\u003c\/em\u003e). He lives between Padua and the Dolomites in Italy.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n","ContributorBio_1":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHOWARD CURTIS\u003c\/strong\u003e has translated more than sixty books from French, Italian, and Spanish. Among his recent translations are works by Daniel Arsand, Santiago Gamboa, and Paolo Sorrentino. His current projects include two novels by Carole Martinez, a book of short stories by Andrej Longo, and the Duca Lamberti tetralogy by Giorgio Scerbanenco. He lives in London, U.K.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n","ContributorRole_0":"By (author)","ContributorRole_1":"Translated by","Contributor_0":"Righetto, Matteo","Contributor_1":"Curtis, Howard","Description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA story of revenge and salvation that follows a young woman who seeks the truth behind her father’s disappearance, \u003ci\u003eSoul of the Border \u003c\/i\u003eis the first novel in a trilogy set between Italy and the Austro-Hungarian Empire in the late nineteenth century.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEvery year, Augusto De Boer undertakes a treacherous journey through the Italian Alps, smuggling tobacco across the border to Austria. With conditions getting harsher, he decides to take his fifteen-year-old daughter Jole along with him, teaching her how to navigate the perilous crags and valleys while avoiding hostile customs officers and nocturnal beasts. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThree years later, Jole must retrace their steps alone as her father has not returned from the border. With only her horse for company, she makes her way across the stark mountain landscape in an epic journey of violence and corruption.\u003c\/p\u003e","EAN":"9781487004194","excerpt_0":"https:\/\/biblioshare.org\/BNCservices\/BNCServices.asmx\/Samples?token=fcf85c1c1b298e99\u0026amp;ean=9781487004194\u0026amp;SAN=\u0026amp;Perspective=excerpt\u0026amp;FileNumber=0","Height":"8","HeightCode":"in","Imprint":"Anansi International","NumberOfPages":"224","OtherText_Accolades_0":"A harrowing, suspenseful, and convincing novel . . . something beautiful.","OtherText_Accolades_0_Auth":"Daniel Woodrell, author of Winter’s Bone","OtherText_Accolades_1":"Soul of the Border is the real deal. Rich in mood and with a great feel for the environment it traverses, this is one clever and beautiful book, and I highly recommend it. It was fantastic.","OtherText_Accolades_1_Auth":"Joe R. Lansdale, author of Paradise Sky","OtherText_Description_for_R_0":"\u003cp\u003eAugusto and Agnese had three children. Jole was born in 1878, Antonia in 1883, and Sergio in 1886.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePhysically and emotionally, Jole was just like her mother, which was probably why she loved her father above all. She almost always tied her blonde hair in a long plait that fell between her shoulder blades. She was thin and had large eyes of indeterminate colour: at times they seemed as green as a larch grove in summer, at others as grey as a wolf’s winter coat, at others still as blue-green as an Alpine lake in spring.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMore than anything else, Jole loved horses and even as a little girl walked barefoot through woods and impassable paths just to see them. To satisfy her passion, especially in summer, she was capable of leaving in the morning and not returning until just before sunset. There were two places where she could see them: to the north, on the pastures of Rendale, where there were many nags that followed the shepherds and their Foza sheep, and to the south, on the ridges of Sasso, where many carthorses were used to transport marble from the quarries.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eShe liked all horses, whether they were light-footed stallions or heavy farm animals. As a child she would look at them in awe, her big eyes open as if to capture a dream, a piece of magic.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHer sister Antonia liked to wear her hair short, and Agnese cut it for her twice a year, with old iron scissors, taking care not to prick her because tetanus was less forgiving than hunger. Antonia would help her mother in the house, and she liked making things to eat with what little there was. She, too, was often in the woods during the summer. She went there to listen to the cries of the wild animals and smell the pleasant aromas of the trees.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eShe would collect in an old tin can the resin secreted from the bark of the red firs and take it to her father, who would knead and mould it into hard little balls, useful for lighting the fire in the stove. Augusto, though, would always leave a little for Antonia, who used it to protect flowers or particularly beautiful insects from the ravages of time, thus adding them to her collection.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBut Antonia did not only collect resin. She also gathered wild strawberries, raspberries, and elderflowers, with which her mother made an excellent refreshing juice mixed with water from the river.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIt was the big river down in the valley that was the favourite spot of the youngest of the De Boers. Often Sergio would walk through the wood that stretched to the east of Nevada and sit down on the edge of the cliff over the Brenta Valley, and from there look down and listen to the sound of the river as it descended towards Bassano del Grappa and then, further still, onto the Venetian Plain. Sergio was skinny and fair haired. He was never still, he was the one who spoke most of all of them, he was not quiet for a second. As a joke, his mother and his sisters always said he spoke double because as well as his own voice he had taken on his father’s.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAll three children, though, apart from living their days with the ardour, the dreams, the blessed unawareness of every little girl or boy of their age, worked hard in the tobacco fields alongside their parents: it was a fate that nobody was allowed to avoid.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"Written in a laconic style, with scarcely any dialogue, the often poignant novel is beautifully executed as it creates an ethos that is haunting and altogether memorable. Seemingly simple and straightforward, the story resonates with timeless characters and situations, investing them with the weight of allegory.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Booklist","OtherText_Review_1":"Righetto’s novel abounds with naturalistic details that help create a fine sense of place — evoking both the literal path that Jole follows and the sense of a world on the cusp of something.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Kirkus Reviews","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"Soul of the Border is the first novel in a trilogy, following a young woman who seeks the truth behind her father’s disappearance.","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2019-05-21","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","Series":"Mountain Trilogy","ShortDescription":"Soul of the Border is the first novel in a trilogy, following a young woman who seeks the truth behind her father’s disappearance.","Width":"5.25","WidthCode":"in"}
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Soul of the Border is the first novel in a trilogy, following a young woman who seeks the truth behind her father’s disappearance.
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In “Peptide P,” scientists study a disease that seems to affect children after they eat hotdogs. In “Side Effects,” a woman’s personality is altered, and not necessarily for the better, by botox injections. 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These stories are luminous. They capture light. They cast sharp shadows. They take root in your heart. I have never read stories like these, and I long to read more. Rare specimens indeed.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Jessica Grant, author of Come Thou, Tortoise, winner of the Amazon First Novel Award","OtherText_Review_1":"…it’s the singularity of her point of view (the lines, edges and details, the wideness and wildness of her premises) that exalts these stories…A collection of beauty, light, colour, curios, permitting readers access into worlds that are usually unexamined, those wild spaces in between.","OtherText_Review_10":"these immensely readable stories demonstrate that we do have imagination, we do have a sense of humour","OtherText_Review_10_Src":"National Post","OtherText_Review_11":"Kovalyova’s an accessible, gifted and animated storyteller — inventive, comic, insightful, fresh and always curious.","OtherText_Review_11_Auth":"Brett Josef Grubisic","OtherText_Review_11_Src":"Vancouver Sun","OtherText_Review_12":"The influence of Russian writers shines on every page …a technical marvel","OtherText_Review_12_Auth":"Genna Buck","OtherText_Review_12_Src":"Maclean’s Magazine","OtherText_Review_13":"Kovalyova's marvellous collection delivers, with stories skirting the genres of sci-fi, suspense, historical fiction, and more.","OtherText_Review_13_Src":"49th shelf Summer Reading Recommendations","OtherText_Review_14":"It will surprise no one that Specimen…is as intelligent and “highly original” as its flyleaf proclaims. But it might surprise some that these stories are, well, softhearted, relying as much on qualitative emotional connects as they do on data…there’s no story in this wonderful collection that isn’t engrossing.","OtherText_Review_14_Src":"Winnipeg Free Press","OtherText_Review_15":"...a debut collection that successfully and gracefully bridges the divide between the worlds of art and science.","OtherText_Review_15_Src":"Publishers Weekly","OtherText_Review_16":"...Kovalyova’s stories remain large-hearted and generous toward their characters as they struggle to make sense of the strange worlds around them.","OtherText_Review_16_Src":"Kirkus","OtherText_Review_17":"Diverse in setting and form, these nine stories, long-listed for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award, contrast the scientific understanding of genetics with deeper wisdom about the bonds of love and family.","OtherText_Review_17_Auth":"Rebecca Foster","OtherText_Review_17_Src":"Foreword Reviews","OtherText_Review_1_Auth":"Kerry Clare","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Pickle Me This blog","OtherText_Review_2":"[Irina Kovalyova] is a great storyteller – astonishingly skilled at both traditional and experimental narrative. The writing is immediate, bold, and original. Lean, powerful dialogue.","OtherText_Review_2_Auth":"Carla Gillis","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Quill \u0026 Quire","OtherText_Review_3":"Throughout Specimen, Kovalyova pushes boundaries, going beyond “routine procedures.” She offers readers a glimpse through a literary microscope, and into our own dark spaces.","OtherText_Review_3_Auth":"Traci Skuce","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Coastal Spectator","OtherText_Review_4":"… such a varied collection testifies to a roaming imagination and willingness to push the boundaries of form and technique.","OtherText_Review_4_Auth":"Steven Beattie","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_5":"Kovalyova has a knack for formal inventiveness… Specimen deserves an attentive readership.","OtherText_Review_5_Auth":"Andre Van Loon","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Toronto Star","OtherText_Review_6":"Like her, many of Kovalyova’s characters are scientists, and she equips them with language that is both rigorous and beautiful; …original, odd, and compelling mix of sci-fi–flavoured literature","OtherText_Review_6_Auth":"Jennifer Croll","OtherText_Review_6_Src":"Georgia Straight","OtherText_Review_7":"Specimen combines the fresh perspective of a writer beginning her career with the confidence and impact of a veteran author.","OtherText_Review_7_Src":"Open Book","OtherText_Review_8":"whip-smart debut story collection","OtherText_Review_8_Src":"Metro, Bookworm Column","OtherText_Review_9":"I love it when impressive new work by a debut writer takes me by surprise. That’s how I experienced this series of fascinating short stories by Irina Kovalyova… Don’t assume that these stylistic innovations or the scientific nature of the content take away from the work’s emotional power. Kovalyova’s taut prose – not a word is wasted – tells stories about fear, ambition and love…there's no doubt great things are coming from this writer. Watch out for her.","OtherText_Review_9_Auth":"Susan G. 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A bold debut collection of short stories that explore the intersection of science and the human heart.
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This is a biting, soaring novel.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Ramona Ausubel, author of Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty and No One is Here Except All of Us","OtherText_Review_1":"Claire Fuller's acrobatic new novel, about a family who has failed each other, inverts our expectations of narrative time to an astonishing effect: our experience of grasping for truth about those who have left is just as pained and urgent as her characters’. Fuller’s sentences are condensed maps of the human process, unfolding in patterns we immediately recognize.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Kathleen Alcott, author of Infinite Home","OtherText_Review_2":"Claire Fuller has captured love in its fullest form, nursed on betrayal and regret and guilt. Gil cheats on and abandons his wife too many times, until she disappears, leaving her clothing on the beach, and he can't know even if she's still alive. She leaves only letters, hidden in a great library of books, and he'll search for her until his end. Swimming Lessons is so smoothly, beautifully written, and the human failures here are heartbreaking.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"David Vann, author of Aquarium","OtherText_Review_3":"Swimming Lessons continues Claire Fuller’s mastery of beautiful language and heartbreaking imagery, which lays bare the stories of infidelities, lies, revivals of love and then demise of those loves. The women of this novel fight for their very souls, and their stories unfurl like flags of independence appearing in to wave from her landscape of great books and art and hope.","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Susan Straight, author of Between Heaven and Here","OtherText_Review_4":"As in her gorgeously harrowing Our Endless Numbered Days, Claire Fuller returns to the territory of a mother’s disappearance and a father’s lies with bewitching and page-turning results. If anything, Swimming Lessons is an even more complex puzzle box of a book, excavating darkly knotted family secrets, intricately cruel betrayals and layers of ambiguous loss. Fuller is so clear eyed, poised and psychologically shrewd in the unfolding of her tale, you will be kept guessing until the final penetrating sentence. An extraordinarily smart and satisfying read.","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Paula McLain, author of The Paris Wife","OtherText_Review_5":"Saving the best for last with revelations and surprises, Fuller’s well-crafted, intricate tale captures the strengths and shortcomings of ordinary people to show how healing is possible by confronting the darkest places.","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Library Journal, STARRED REVIEW","OtherText_Review_6":"Fuller’s tale is eloquent, harrowing, raw . . . 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Swimming Lessons
A woman disappears without a trace. Twelve years later, her adult daughter starts finding answers hidden in the books that her mother left behind.
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It is also a staggering indictment of the deceit and falsehood that is today’s North Korea. A mournful, deeply felt, and necessary read. It will change you.","OtherText_Accolades_0_Auth":"Irina Kovalyova, author of Specimen","OtherText_Accolades_1":"Bandi’s collection of short stories are well crafted parable-like portraits of people struggling to trust and yearning to create meaning as they navigate their way through the sterile, Kafkaesque landscape of 1990s North Korea. More stories like these may crumble the regime.","OtherText_Accolades_1_Auth":"Ins Choi, author of Kim’s Convenience","OtherText_Accolades_2":"All we can do is to read these 'accusations.' Only that will save the writer who wrote and sent them out into the world at the risk of his own life.","OtherText_Accolades_2_Auth":"Kyung-Sook Shin","OtherText_Review_0":"This is an extraordinary tale of ordinary people in North Korea . . . A highly readable, nuanced, credible picture of a country where ordinary people go about their lives treading around the regime, and sometimes bumping into it.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"BBC World Service","OtherText_Review_1":"Searing fiction by an anonymous dissident . . . A fierce indictment of life in the totalitarian North.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"New York Times","OtherText_Review_2":"Smuggled out of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea 25 years after being written, this pseudonymous collection covers the final years of the rule of Kim Il-sung. Depicting everyday citizens trying to make the best of a bad situation, The Accusation gives a human face to the people living under a brutal regime.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"National Post","OtherText_Review_3":"These short works offer powerful insights into a world behind walls . . . In its scope and courage, The Accusation is an act of great love.","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Guardian","OtherText_Review_4":"Fugitive fiction ― literally ― from inside North Korea, devastatingly critical of the Kim dynasty and its workers’ paradise … There is a streak of satire in these stories, but mostly they are grimly realistic … Certainly the author has access to the broad sweep of North Korean society, from industrial workers and farmers to midlevel political functionaries … An important document of witness.","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Kirkus Reviews","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"A major publishing phenomenon, The Accusation by anonymous North Korean writer Bandi is the first piece of fiction to come out of North Korea.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Commended","PrizeCodeText_1":"Commended","PrizeCode_0":"03","PrizeCode_1":"03","PrizeName_0":"A GLOBE AND MAIL TOP 100 BOOK","PrizeName_1":"NATIONAL POST 99 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR","PrizeYear_0":"2017","PrizeYear_1":"2017","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2017-03-04","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"A major publishing phenomenon, The Accusation by anonymous North Korean writer Bandi is the first piece of fiction to come out of North Korea.","Width":"8.25","WidthCode":"in"}
The Accusation
A major publishing phenomenon, The Accusation by anonymous North Korean writer Bandi is the first piece of fiction to come out of North Korea.
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{"id":6817705263163,"title":"The Book for Dangerous Women","handle":"the-book-for-dangerous-women","description":"\u003cp\u003eEver wonder how to best dress your apple-shaped figure? Do you know the top twelve rules on how to properly (and discreetly) conduct an affair? \u003cem\u003eThe Book for Dangerous Women\u003c\/em\u003e is a sly, elegant encyclopedia of practical wisdom by three women who know a bit about life and bring their myriad of experiences of bear on topics such as marriage, infidelity, motherhood, sex, fashion, friendship, work, and self-discovery.\u003c\/p\u003e \r\n \u003cp\u003eMore than five hundred entries of safe advice show us how to get through life with a little grace and a lot of fun — from how to accept compliments to when to wear \"cami-knickers,\" to how to deal with ambivalence (toward lovers, friends, or foes), and why owning a cat and a fancy dress may be more fulfilling than sex. 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The Book for Dangerous Women
An essential bedside companion full of cheeky humour, well-won wisdom, and practical advice, written by three dangerously knowledgeable witty women.
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The Creation of Half-Broken People
Stupendous African Gothic, by the winner of Yale University’s Windham–Campbell Prize
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The Jesuit Disruptor
A fresh look at a complex pope with a simple agenda: radically reforming the Catholic Church.
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The Lake
A mesmerizing story about the disappearance of three young women and a deeply disturbing portrait of a small town gone bad.
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The Librarianist
A new novel from bestselling author Patrick deWitt explores the life of an ordinary man whose world is turned upside down by a chance encounter.
